Name: Jeffrey Toobin: "Disgrace and outrage" that DOJ fired Comey's daughter
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Can we talk about Maureen Comey for a second?

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Maureen Comey was for 10 years an extremely successful, dedicated, and ethical assistant

U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York.

She was a high-ranking person in that office.

She became the head of the Public Integrity Unit.

She supervised the case against Robert Menendez, the corrupt senator.

The idea that she got fired is a disgrace to the Justice Department.

And Jay Clayton, supposedly the U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York, ought to resign himself in disgrace because he allowed this to go on.

This is an outrage that this woman got fired.

According to a source, a person familiar with the situation said that having a Comey is untenable in this administration, given her father, James Comey, is, quote, constantly going after the administration.

Last I checked, James Comey has been writing fiction novels, mystery novels.

I'm not sure, going after the administration?

Actually, last you checked was what, like a week ago or 10 days ago, when Trump announced, when it was announced that they were going to be investigating James Comey and Brennan as part of what I think is a distraction strategy.

And today or yesterday, Trump blamed Comey for having put together this, what he's calling the Epstein hoax, despite the fact that it precedes Comey.

Seems like really bad timing to fire the person who prosecuted Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

I mean, she's no more entitled to this job than anybody else is, and if she's so great, the next president can hire her, and maybe they will.

And he can hire and fire whoever he wants.

I don't know how good at her job, I mean, did she do a good job on P. Diddy?

I mean, does it seem like that went well?

Looked like it didn't go very well to me, so I don't know.

I mean, the idea that because she didn't get a complete conviction, she got somewhat of a conviction in P. Diddy.

I went after P. Diddy, and that's not what you'd put on your resume.

You're not trying to say that that's the reason.

But beyond that, don't say she's amazing at this job when the biggest case she just had a moment ago sucked.

But beyond all that, under Article 2, he can hire and fire anyone he wants.

There are civil service rules for lawyers.

I know the Trump administration doesn't really feel it's bound by lawyers.

Wait, are you telling me that Obama and Clinton and Biden never fired anyone?

George W. Bush fired a bunch of U.S. attorneys.

Okay, so then why are we acting like this is a big thing?

Every president is entitled to fire every political appointee.

Maureen Comey was a line prosecutor, and I was one.

The tradition has always been that you stay from one administration to the next.

If your dad is doing what her dad did, and then you can't get a PDD conviction, I think you ought to get fired.

Ben, let me ask you about that for a second, because I mean you said it, so let's explore it.

Her dad is a guy that constantly was going after Donald Trump with things that we now know are lies and entrapping people in situational rooms.

He was in a position of power until he got fired by Donald Trump two thousand years ago.

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Jeffrey Toobin: "Disgrace and outrage" that DOJ fired Comey's daughter

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